Setting a Group Manager for Security Groups in bulk

[woollsr]

We want to set a Group Manager for all of our security groups so that we know who to contact for info on them all. By group manager I mean the 'Name' filed under managed by. We have a LOT of security groups. I was hoping I'd be able to run a fancy script to 1. pull out a list of all the groups and maybe the first 5 members 2. Send an email to these 5 members so we can ask who manages them. And that was kind of as far as I got but any ideas welcome as to how I could automate it so we don't have to manually edit thousands of security groups.

 

Cheers,

 

R

[psydii]

FWIW, we have each group as CI in our CMDB/Service Desk. The ticket history gives us the information regarding who requested the group, its purpose and changes thus by inference its likely current owner/manager.

 

This way when we review groups we have a better chance of working out who the owner is, than finding a 'link' to a long deleted user id.

 

I have experimented with setting the manager field for groups but found this introduces odd user experiences where Office and Office 365 are expecting only people to have Managers.